Final Jeopardy: Poetry & Places (11-13-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/13/2024) in the category “Poetry & Places” was:
It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about “the mountains …covered with snow…the straths & green valleys below”
2x champ Joey DeSena, a development engineer from Raleigh, NC, has won $44,698. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario; and Lois Dioro, a realtor from West Haven, CT.
Round 1 Categories: Great Women in Sports – Adult Contemporary Lit – Keeping Warm – Also a Beverage Brand – It’s a Small World – After All
Evan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “After All” under the $600 just before the break. He was the only one on the board with $2,000. Evan made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Synonyms for this word of indifference include standoffish & distant show
Evan finished in the lead with $5,000. Lois was second with $3,000 and Joey was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: A Piece of History – Colleges & Universities – From the Greek – Minerals – Nothing to See Here – You’ll Learn to Adapt
Evan found the first Daily Double in “From the Greek” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,000, $2,800 more than Lois in second place. Evan bet $2,000 but didn’t have a guess so he was WRONG.
Greek for “art” originated part of the name of this process that made movies like “Gone With the Wind” glow show
Lois found the last Daily Double in “You’ll Learn to Adapt” under the $800 clue with 5 clues left after it. She was in second place with $11,400, $2,000 less than Evan’s lead. Lois bet $2,400 and she was RIGHT.
Accepting the Oscar for writing “Sense & Sensibilities”, she said she’d gone to Jane Austen’s grave for respect & to tell her the grosses show
Evan and Lois finished in a tie for the lead with $14,600. Joey was next with $7,400. All clues were shown.
ONLY ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE THE HIGHLANDS?
Robert Burns (1759–1796) is Scotland’s national poet. He wrote quite a bit of verse about his country’s geographic features, such as the highlands, moors, lochs and braes (hillsides). The poetic excerpt in today’s final clue is from his 1789 poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands”. Also a song, it was set to music a couple of decades after Burns died.
In 2014, the BBC put over 700 Burns poems online, many with audio. King Charles III (then the Prince of Wales) did the reading for “My Heart’s in the Highlands”. Balmoral Castle in the Highlands is the private property of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II spent her last days at Balmoral and King Charles has his own private residence there.
Joey thought it was a moor. He lost $7,201 and finished with $199.
Evan got it right with “highland” since they were asking for the place name, which can be singular or plural. Evan bet it all and finished with $29,200.
Lois went with Scotland. She lost $2,600 and landed in second place with $12,000. So, with the lone correct response, Evan Dorey became the Jeopardy champ.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT ($1000) Fans of this bestselling author of “Slammed” & “Point of Retreat” are known as CoHorts
MINERALS ($2000) The second-hardest natural material is this gemstone producer, a form of aluminum oxide
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “THE NEW TESTAMENT”
Paul’s letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations show
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Final stumped me. Poetry not really my thing, although I did get an A in poetry class in college. Got all 3 doubles. They weren’t cinches but were knowable.
Turned out to be a great contest in the 2nd round. I winced all through the first. The WNBA star is a 20+ year veteran who’s in all kinds of TV ads; was sure someone would know Anastasia Steele’s creator; the heater clue was easy but left them cold; the Oregon sweater company is iconic in my corner of the world. The beverage brands clues were clever.
I was 2/3 on DD and missed FJ.
However, this is 100% true. I am not making this up. I was flabbergasted. Last night, for some reason, I was thinking about cinnabar as a source of mercury. I also thought of pitchblende at the same time. But, also, incredibly, I said to myself (maybe out loud) “the null set and the empty set are NOT the same thing”. And, there goes Ken saying they were! They’re not! They ain’t!
That was mondo bizarro. What I am NOT saying is that I am “physic” (psychic). That’s a bunch of tripe and grift. Not, I don’t know why I thought of those things.
It was another swell game, and all of the contestants were rather sharp tonight. Anyways, out of desperation, I took a wild stab at FJ, and went with the Himalayas. Yes, I sure heard of the Highlands.
Has anyone noticed an influx of Canadian players recently? It seems like every week a Canadian is on. Never remember it being that frequent.
It’s hard not to notice, Travis. It seems like one Canadian a week is becoming the norm.
It’s so cool that I found that King Charles reading — tomorrow is his 76th birthday. (I just saw that on tomorrow’s birthday list)
King Charles recited that poem rather nicely. Actually, he would have made a very good orator.